Indian NGO Gramalaya is organising a National level Workshop on Appropriate Toilet Technology from 9-11 May 2012 in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, with the support of Arghyam, Bangalore and UNICEF, Chennai. In this participatory workshop, field workers will be joined by engineers and sanitation experts to arrive at better toilet models for different topographical and hydro-geological conditions in India.

In 2007, Gramalaya set up a Centre for Toilet Technology and Training with funding from WaterPartners International (now Water.org), USA.

Thanks for your good work of promoting sanitation, it is discouraging that our governments spends billion of money treating thousands of people suffering from diseases related to water, hygiene and sanitation, the situation is worse especially in schools where childrens from different background are forced to share limited toilets without water for washing their hands nor even clean water for drinking. my request is for our goverments and development partners to allocate more fund in this area to facilitate awareness creation and construction of toilets as well as protection of water sources to eliminate such diseases.
let us all join hands in fighting such diseases.

Dear Yanti, I have just moved your post about your paper ("Towards sustained sanitation services: a review of existing frameworks and an alternative framework combining ecological and sanitation life stage approaches.") into this thread as it fits better here. (if anyone wants to see the link just scrol up to her post on 13 Oct). As it's not a […]

Dear Sanjay, I can't really picture how you would set this directory up and who could add to it? It reminds me a little bit of two existing pages on Wikipedia which might inspire you: - Water pollution in India: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_pollution_in_India - Indian states and union territories ranked by prevalence of open defecation en.wikipedia.org/w […]

You are so right about pointing out the earth-shattering news, Arno! Let's all forget about quoting that 2.4 billion figure for people without access to improved sanitation (from the MDG era). I think the new figure to keep "pushing" into people's attention is 4.5 billion people without access to safely managed sanitation. I am doing my b […]

Welcome to Aquaya as a new SuSanA partner! I first came across Aquaya via a project they had funded by the Gates Foundation which I had added to the SuSanA project database for them: It was called "Cash on delivery for water quality testing", see here: www.susana.org/en/knowledge-hub/projects/database/details/150 It ended in 2015 - do you have any […]